Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.